Chiaravalle di Fiastra monastery
| Cistercian Abbey of Chiaravalle di Fiastra | |
|---|---|
 Abbazia di Chiaravalle di Fiastra |
|
| location |
Italy Marche Region Macerata Province |
| Lies in the diocese |
Macerata-Tolentino- Recanati-Cingoli-Treia |
| Coordinates: | 43 ° 13 '17 " N , 13 ° 24' 18" E |
| Serial number according to Janauschek |
162 |
| Patronage | St. Mary |
| founding year | 1098 by Benedictines |
| Cistercian since | 1142 |
| Year of dissolution / annulment |
1624 |
| Year of repopulation | 1985 |
| Mother monastery | Chiaravalle Milanese |
| Primary Abbey | Clairvaux |
| Congregation | Congregation of St. Bernard in Italy |
The monastery Chiaravalle di Fiastra (also: Abbazia Santa Maria di Fiastra ; lat.BMV Claraevallis Fiastrae ) is a Cistercian priory in what is now the Marche region , Italy . It is located around twelve kilometers east of Tolentino and ten kilometers south of Macerata in the province of Macerata , on Strada statale 78 and on the Fiastra stream, a tributary of the Chienti river .
history
The monastery was founded in 1142 by Duke Garnerio of Spoleto, possibly on the site of a Benedictine monastery that already existed in 1098 , and was settled in the same year by the Chiaravalle Milanese monastery under the leadership of Abbot Ugo. So it belonged to the filiation of the Clairvaux Primary Abbey . With a bull of Pope Alexander III. The Benedictine monastery of Santa Croce del Chienti was subordinated to the Fiastra monastery in 1165, but it does not appear in the documents of the Cistercian order and in 1285 it became a ruin. In 1456 Fiastra Monastery fell into Kommende and was in 1581 by Pope Gregory XIII. transferred to the Jesuits . The remaining Cistercians then withdrew to Rome to the Church of San Vito. The monastery there joined the Roman province of the Italian Cistercian congregation in 1623. The Fiastra monastery came after the abolition of the Jesuit order in 1773 to the Marquis Bandini di Camerino, who turned the monastery into a country residence. The church was given to the Augustinians a few years later and finally became a parish church in 1963. In 1985 a Cistercian monastery was opened again in Chiaravalle di Fiastra with a small community of monks from Chiaravalle Milanese.
Plant and buildings
Stylistically, the monastery follows the Cistercian monasteries of the Po Valley . The remarkably long brick church essentially follows the Bernardine plan, i.e. shows a Latin cross with a three-aisled nave (with alternating supports), transept with probably later built-in candle arches and two barrel-vaulted side chapels on both sides in the east and a rectangular main choir with rib vaults. Of the four nave bays, only the westernmost is groin vaulted (instead of the barrel vault that was originally intended). The eight yokes of the side aisles, however, are completely arched. The church has a vestibule in the west with a Romanesque round arch portal and two triforic windows to the right and left of it. The west facade has a marble rosette with twelve marble columns, possibly dating back to the Jesuit period . The cloister to the south (right) of the church has a rising floor in the middle. The six-bay chapter house in the east wing of the monastery buildings has been preserved, the west and south wings have been redesigned.
literature
- Balduino Gustavo Bedini: Breve prospetto delle abazie cisterciensi d'Italia. o. O. (Casamari), 1964, without ISBN, pp. 33-35
- Georg Kauffmann: Reclam's Art Guide Italy IV. 2nd edition, Philipp Reclam jun., Stuttgart 1971, pp. 181-183, ISBN 3-15-010206-5
